$10,000? Really? It always shocks me how cheap people are. You would think that if any actual adversary wanted information they believed would be helpful in replicating or attacking a nuclear submarine, the price tag they would be willing to pay would be much higher. The guy and his wife are both idiots and they are undoubtedly facing severe consequences. Let’s all hope they never had the opportunity to have children.
Sad stuff.
Personally I can’t imagine that anyone would want information on nuclear reactors. What would one use that stuff for. It’s not the 50’s, how nuclear reactors work is well known. The limiting factors for building them are probably more about economics and finding manpower and ore not informational.
Any thoughts on why the court paperwork only refer to the supposed foreign government as being 'COUNTRY1'?
https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1440946/downl...
Based on other recent events, any foreign power interested in secret submarine specifications should just create a "World of Subs" game.
I wonder how many FBI agents are on this thread now looking for insightful comments.
Internally from Within the FBI department who was the eager agent that initiated this Avenue of exploration?
Thought process of the agent in charge. I must get a promotion as soon as possible, what is the fastest way? Crypto and look for people who would like to betray their own country.
My question how did they go about enticing the culprits? That background story seems to me far more interesting than what things have been publically documented
I get a 404 when clicking the link, to get to the article I have to truncate 'via@Cbs Politics' from the URL.